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Cooperative Forestry Southern Region and the Washington Office staff hosted a national Landowner Assistance Program meeting in historic Charleston, South Carolina October 3-5, 2006. For the first time, the meeting was held in conjunction with the annual Forest Legacy Program meeting - and all states and territories were invited to participate.

Approximately 100 Forest Service and State forest agency representatives attended the meeting. The first day was focused on Forest Legacy Program matters including land trust accreditation, appraisal issue, and quality assurance reviews. On the second day, the group took in the natural beauty and abundant wildlife along the Cooper River, where the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources has successfully negotiated a number of Forest Legacy tracts and other conservation acquisitions. Following the river tour, participants went to the Sewee Visitor and Environmental Education Center to discuss matters relevant to all LOA programs, including comprehensive, landscape scale planning and the use of Forest Stewardship plans to further conservation objectives in conservation easements. The third day of the meeting focused on the Forest Stewardship Program, with panels on the Spatial Analysis Project, Reaching Future Forest Owners and on the program's relevance to disaster preparation/mitigation.

The following are power point presentations from the National LOA meeting.

Dungeness Demonstration Project (6.09 MB)

Expanding Forest Sector Participation (1.93 MB)

Grow Some Green in SC (5.86)

Michigan Forestry Carbon Sequestration (161 KB)

Oregon SAP-10-2006 (5.39 MB)

PA Future Forest Owners (5.77 MB)

Reaching the Forest Owners of the Furture (3.89 MB)

Southern Critical Forest Land Assessment (8.07 MB)

Understanding and Reaching Family Forest (3.98 MB)

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